Japanese occupation of Hong Kong

The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港日治時期) was a time when Japan controlled Hong Kong. It began when the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, gave up the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941. The occupation lasted for three years and eight months until Japan gave up at the end of Second World War.

Economics

One day after the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong started, the Japanese military yen was changed to the only legal currency of Hong Kong. In January 1942, two Hong Kong dollars could be converted to one Japanese military yen. However, in July, four Hong Kong dollars were needed to be converted to one Japanese military yen.

Education

Textbooks during Japanese Occupation

All primary schools and secondary schools had to teach Japanese. They were not allowed to teach English.

Japanese Occupation Of Hong Kong Media

• An instrumental recording of "Kimi ga Yo" from 1930.

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  Imperial Japanese soldiers arrested European bankers and detained them in a hotel.

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  Population decrease due to repatriation

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  A hand-out of a Japanese language learning radio programme

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  Names of roads were rewritten in Japanese

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  Celebration of a "New Hong Kong" after Japanese occupation

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  Dongjiang guerillas fighting in trenches

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  British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt watching Japanese Vice Admiral Ruitako Fujita sign the document of surrender on 16 September 1945 in Hong Kong.

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  Japanese document of surrender